Sean Duffy: “I've truncated the time from when you apply to the academy…”

“I would say that the American people feel like we don't have that kind of time. Boat time is what we need. Right. So what I've done is I've truncated the time from when you apply to the academy to when you get a seat in the academy. It's a four month training session. We gave them these new controllers a bonus to come in. We pay them a stipend.” (01:35–01:40)

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